Reuses other publishers' content, in Switzerland

Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights (URG), exclusive rights, SR 231.1, Arts. 2 and 10 · Read the law's page

• You need the author's permission to use a work: the author has the exclusive right to decide whether, when and how the work is used (Art. 10(1)).
• Do not produce copies of a work, offer, transfer or otherwise distribute copies of it, or make it available so that persons may access it from a place and at a time individually chosen by them, without the author's permission (Art. 10(2)(a), (b) and (c)).
• Treat a computer program as a work protected by copyright (Art. 2(3)), and do not rent one out without the author's permission, because the author of a computer program also has the exclusive rental right (Art. 10(3)).

Federal Act on Copyright and Related Rights (URG), quotation and press excerpts, SR 231.1, Arts. 2, 24a, 25 and 28 · Read the law's page

• Treat drafts, titles and parts of works as protected by copyright where they are intellectual creations with an individual character (Art. 2(4)).
• You may quote a published work if the quotation serves as an explanation, a reference or an illustration, and the extent of the quotation is justified for that purpose (Art. 25(1)).
• Designate the quotation as such and give the source, and cite the author's name where the source indicates it (Art. 25(2)).
• For the purposes of information about current affairs, you may reproduce, distribute, broadcast or retransmit short excerpts from press articles or from radio and television reports, if you make full reference to the excerpt and the source and cite the author's name where the source indicates it (Art. 28(2)).
• You may make temporary copies of a work only if they are transient or incidental, represent an integral and essential part of a technological process, serve solely to enable a transmission of the work in a network between third parties by an intermediary or a lawful use of the work, and have no independent economic significance (Art. 24a).

Federal Act on the Protection of Trade Marks and Indications of Source (MSchG/LPM), SR 232.11, Arts. 47 and 64 · Read the law's page

• Do not use an incorrect indication of source, that is a direct or indirect reference to the geographical origin of goods or services, including to their characteristics or the quality associated with their origin (Art. 47(1) and (3)(a)).
• Do not use a denomination that may be confused with an incorrect indication of source (Art. 47(3)(b)).
• Do not use a name, a company name, an address or a trade mark associated with goods or services of a different origin where this could be misleading (Art. 47(3)(c)).

Federal Act on the Protection of the Swiss Coat of Arms and Other Public Signs (CAPA), SR 232.21, Arts. 8, 9, 10, 11, 15 and 28 · Read the law's page

• Do not use the Swiss coat of arms, the coat of arms of a canton, a commune or another public authority recognised under cantonal law, or a sign that could be confused with one of them, unless you are the public body to which it belongs (Art. 8(1)).
• You may use such a coat of arms as an illustration in a dictionary, reference work, scientific work or similar work, and for the other uses listed in Article 8 paragraph 4 (Art. 8(4)).
• Do not use an official designation, such as «Confederation», «federal», «canton», «cantonal», «commune» or «communal», or any other term that implies a Swiss authority or an official or semi-official activity, or a term that could be confused with one, on its own unless you are the public body to which it belongs or you are carrying out an official or semi-official activity (Art. 6 and Art. 9(1) and (2)).
• You may use an official designation together with other word or figurative elements only to the extent that the use is neither misleading nor contrary to public policy, morality or applicable law (Art. 9(3)).
• You may use flags and other emblems of the Confederation, cantons, communes and other public authorities recognised under cantonal law, and national figurative and word signs such as Swiss landmarks, heroic figures, sites or monuments, only to the extent that the use is neither misleading nor contrary to public policy, morality or applicable law (Arts. 7, 10 and 11).
• Do not use the coat of arms, flag or other emblem of a foreign state, a sign that could be confused with one, or a foreign national figurative or word sign, unless you are that state or it authorises you (Art. 15(1) and Art. 16(1)).